Word: protectively
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...dawning; a day in which we will realize that we cannot police and "protect" the world; a day in which we will have to decide what really is vital to our national security; a day in which we will have to get along with all forms of governments...
With the Communists closing in, Catholic priests and Buddhist monks gathered at the Basilica, Saigon's cathedral, for the first joint service in the history of South Viet Nam. Prayers were offered to Buddha, in the words of one monk, "to seek harmony and protect and help the Vietnamese people. It would be very good to help us sufferers...
...secretiveness is typical of the architects of the Communist victory. Both to protect relatives in the South from reprisals by the Saigon regime and to avoid becoming the objects of personality cults, the Vietnamese Communists have traditionally disdained publicity about their personal lives or careers. Moreover the precise relationship between the Communist government in the North and the Provisional Revolutionary Government in the South has never been totally clear, though all important decisions seem to be made in Hanoi...
...this year's most important bargaining tables. At last week's opening of negotiations covering 600,000 postal workers, whose contract with the Government-owned U.S. Postal Service expires July 21, union leaders insisted on higher pay increases and a stronger cost-of-living escalator clause to protect their members against future inflation. Five railway unions have rejected a hefty 41% wage and benefit boost offered by management, forcing the Ford Administration to order a 60-day postponement of a threatened nationwide rail strike...
...emptive strike possibilities. Premier Yitzhak Rabin's government argues that such pressure will only encourage Arabs like Assad. Thus there was particular interest last week in the first public showing of the Kfir (Lion Cub), a home-built fighter that symbolizes Israel's determination to protect itself...